Managers and Leaders Who Can: How you survive and succeed in the new economy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

As Chief Executive of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), Ruth Spellman OBE leads the drive to encourage greater focus on the high-level skills needed to build UK competitiveness and productivity. She is also responsible for the Institute’s campaign to ensure that 50% of managers are professionally qualified by 2020.

Prior to joining the CMI in June 2008, Ruth served as the first female Chief Executive of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). She also spent seven years as Chief Executive of Investors in People (IIP), where she helped to raise the profile of the employer-led organisation across 27 countries. During this period she was appointed Chair of the skills body for the voluntary sector in a non-executive role, and was a Non-executive Director of Thompsons Solicitors.

As HR Director for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), Ruth was responsible for HR strategy, change management, resourcing strategy, employee communications, external communications and media relations. Her consultancy knowledge and strength resulted in new NSPCC policies that helped it to win the coveted Employer of the Year Award in 1996.

Ruth also spent five years working for Coopers & Lybrand. During this time, she worked with the boards of six of the UK’s top 100 companies and set up one of the firm’s HR branches.

In 2007, Ruth was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List for services to workplace learning. She was also recently ...